Development of "Souryu-IV" and "Souryu-V:" serially connected crawler vehicles for in-rubble searching operations

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 31-65

  Arai, Masayuki ^a   Tanaka, Yoshinori ^a   Hirose, Shigeo ^a   Kuwahara, Hiroyuki ^b   Tsukui, Shingo ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b International Rescue System Institute   (Japan)

^c Topy Industries Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE CONTROL; ROBOTICS; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

CRAWLER VEHICLES; IN-RUBBLE SEARCHING OPERATIONS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 38349171487     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20229     Document Type: Article

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